SBI Clerk Quant Questions with Answers

SBI Clerk Quant Questions with Answers: Quick Answer

This page gives 20 original SBI Clerk quant questions with answers and full step-by-step solutions. The set covers both stages of the examination. Questions 1 to 15 are written at Prelims level for the Numerical Ability section: 35 questions, 35 marks, 20 minutes, with 0.25 deducted for each wrong answer. Questions 16 to 18 form a data interpretation set of the kind that dominates the Mains Quantitative Aptitude section: 50 questions, 50 marks, 45 minutes. Questions 19 and 20 are Mains-level arithmetic. The topics are the ones the examination actually tests: simplification, percentages, ratios, averages, interest, profit and loss, time and work, speed and distance, boats, ages, mixtures, quadratics, number series, probability, partnership and pipes.

These 20 questions are original practice questions written for this page. They are not previous-year questions and are not copied from any paper, book or website. They are modelled on the style and difficulty of the SBI Clerk quant sections, so they work as a timed drill: 15 questions in about 12 minutes at Prelims pace, then the data interpretation set without a break. Every answer is worked from the numbers in the question, and the working shows the exact step where each answer comes from. As of 2 November 2026, the pattern figures on this page follow the official SBI Clerk scheme described on the syllabus page linked below.

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Keep these ideas in front of you while you work through the questions. Almost every SBI Clerk quant question is one of them in disguise.

• Simplification: BODMAS order, and cancel before multiplying. In percentage questions, 10% of a number is the anchor: build other percentages from it.
• Interest: simple interest = P × R × T ÷ 100. The 2-year compound-minus-simple difference is P × (R ÷ 100)². The compound amount after 2 years is P × (1 + R ÷ 100)².
• Profit and loss: profit percentage is always on the cost price. If the selling price and the profit percentage are known, the cost price is selling price ÷ (1 + profit ÷ 100). A discount acts on the marked price.
• Time and work: work is measured in man-days: men × days is constant for a fixed job. A filling pipe adds its rate and an emptying pipe subtracts its rate.
• Boats and streams: upstream speed = speed in still water − speed of the stream; downstream speed = speed in still water + speed of the stream. The stream speed is half the difference of the two.
• Data interpretation: read the table before calculating. Most DI questions ask for one growth rate, one average or one share, and the table already contains every number needed.

Shortcut habit: in Prelims, the quant section allows barely 35 seconds per question. Write one line per question — the formula, then the numbers — and move on. In Mains, the data interpretation sets reward reading the whole table once and answering three questions from it, which is why questions 16 to 18 share one table.

Question 1 — Simplification

Q1. What is the value of 125 + 25 × 4 − 60 ÷ 3?

(A) 195 (B) 215 (C) 205 (D) 185

Answer: (C) 205. By BODMAS: 25 × 4 = 100 and 60 ÷ 3 = 20, so 125 + 100 − 20 = 205.

Question 2 — Percentage

Q2. What is 42% of 850?

(A) 347 (B) 367 (C) 337 (D) 357

Answer: (D) 357. 42% of 850 = (42 ÷ 100) × 850 = 42 × 8.5 = 357. Working from 10% = 85: 40% = 340 and 2% = 17, so 340 + 17 = 357.

Question 3 — Ratio

Q3. Two numbers are in the ratio 7 : 9 and their sum is 64. What is the smaller number?

(A) 30 (B) 28 (C) 26 (D) 32

Answer: (B) 28. The ratio has 7 + 9 = 16 parts, so one part is 64 ÷ 16 = 4. The smaller number is 7 × 4 = 28.

Question 4 — Average

Q4. What is the average of the first 5 multiples of 9?

(A) 27 (B) 25 (C) 29 (D) 30

Answer: (A) 27. The multiples are 9, 18, 27, 36 and 45. Their sum is 135 and 135 ÷ 5 = 27. In any odd count of numbers in arithmetic progression, the average is the middle value, 27.

Question 5 — Simple Interest

Q5. Find the simple interest on ₹6,000 at 7.5% per annum for 4 years.

(A) ₹1,700 (B) ₹1,900 (C) ₹1,600 (D) ₹1,800

Answer: (D) ₹1,800. Simple interest = 6,000 × 7.5 × 4 ÷ 100 = 6,000 × 30 ÷ 100 = ₹1,800.

Question 6 — Compound Interest

Q6. Find the compound interest on ₹10,000 at 5% per annum for 2 years, compounded annually.

(A) ₹1,000 (B) ₹1,050 (C) ₹1,025 (D) ₹1,100

Answer: (C) ₹1,025. After 2 years the amount is 10,000 × 1.05 × 1.05 = ₹11,025, so the interest is 11,025 − 10,000 = ₹1,025. Year 1 interest is ₹500 and year 2 interest is ₹525.

Question 7 — Profit and Loss

Q7. An article with a marked price of ₹1,200 is sold after a 25% discount. If its cost price was ₹750, what is the profit percentage?

(A) 15% (B) 25% (C) 20% (D) 18%

Answer: (C) 20%. The selling price is 1,200 × 0.75 = ₹900. The profit is 900 − 750 = ₹150, and the profit percentage on the cost price is 150 ÷ 750 × 100 = 20%.

Question 8 — Time and Work

Q8. 6 men can finish a work in 12 days. In how many days can 8 men finish the same work?

(A) 8 days (B) 10 days (C) 7 days (D) 9 days

Answer: (D) 9 days. The work is 6 × 12 = 72 man-days, so 8 men take 72 ÷ 8 = 9 days. More men means fewer days, in inverse proportion.

Question 9 — Speed

Q9. A bus covers 450 km in 5 hours. What is its speed?

(A) 80 km/h (B) 85 km/h (C) 90 km/h (D) 95 km/h

Answer: (C) 90 km/h. Speed = distance ÷ time = 450 ÷ 5 = 90 km/h.

Question 10 — Boats and Streams

Q10. A boat's speed in still water is 12 km/h and the speed of the stream is 3 km/h. How long does the boat take to travel 54 km upstream?

(A) 5 hours (B) 7 hours (C) 4 hours (D) 6 hours

Answer: (D) 6 hours. The upstream speed is 12 − 3 = 9 km/h, so the time is 54 ÷ 9 = 6 hours.

Question 11 — Ages

Q11. The present ages of two brothers are in the ratio 4 : 5. Six years ago, their ages were in the ratio 3 : 4. How old is the elder brother now?

(A) 28 years (B) 30 years (C) 32 years (D) 26 years

Answer: (B) 30 years. Let the ages be 4x and 5x. Six years ago: (4x − 6) ÷ (5x − 6) = 3 ÷ 4, so 16x − 24 = 15x − 18, giving x = 6. The elder brother is 5 × 6 = 30 years old, and the younger is 24.

Question 12 — Mixture

Q12. A 40-litre mixture of milk and water is in the ratio 5 : 3. If 8 litres of water are added, what is the new ratio of milk to water?

(A) 25 : 23 (B) 5 : 3 (C) 25 : 21 (D) 3 : 2

Answer: (A) 25 : 23. The mixture has 40 × 5 ÷ 8 = 25 litres of milk and 15 litres of water. Adding 8 litres of water gives 23 litres of water, so the new ratio is 25 : 23. The milk quantity does not change.

Question 13 — Quadratic Equation

Q13. What is the larger root of x² − 11x + 28 = 0?

(A) 4 (B) 7 (C) 11 (D) 28

Answer: (B) 7. Factorising: x² − 11x + 28 = (x − 4)(x − 7) = 0, so the roots are 4 and 7. The larger root is 7. Check: 4 + 7 = 11 and 4 × 7 = 28.

Question 14 — Number Series

Q14. What comes next in the series 5, 11, 23, 47, 95, ?

(A) 189 (B) 193 (C) 187 (D) 191

Answer: (D) 191. Each term is twice the previous term plus 1: 5 × 2 + 1 = 11, 11 × 2 + 1 = 23, 23 × 2 + 1 = 47, 47 × 2 + 1 = 95. The next term is 95 × 2 + 1 = 191.

Question 15 — Probability

Q15. A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that it is an ace?

(A) 1/13 (B) 1/12 (C) 4/13 (D) 1/26

Answer: (A) 1/13. There are 4 aces in 52 cards, so the probability is 4 ÷ 52 = 1/13.

Questions 16 to 18 — Data Interpretation

Study the following table and answer the questions that follow. The table shows the revenue of a company, in ₹ lakh, over three years.

Question 16 — DI: Growth Rate

Q16. By what percentage did the revenue grow from Year 1 to Year 3?

(A) 50% (B) 40% (C) 60% (D) 45%

Answer: (A) 50%. The growth is 180 − 120 = 60, and the percentage growth on Year 1 is 60 ÷ 120 × 100 = 50%.

Question 17 — DI: Average

Q17. What is the average revenue over the three years?

(A) 150 (B) 140 (C) 160 (D) 155

Answer: (A) 150. The total is 120 + 150 + 180 = 450, and 450 ÷ 3 = 150 ₹ lakh. The figures rise by 30 each year, so the average is the middle value, 150.

Question 18 — DI: Share

Q18. What percentage of the total three-year revenue came in Year 2?

(A) 25% (B) 33.33% (C) 30% (D) 40%

Answer: (B) 33.33%. Year 2 revenue is 150 out of a total of 450, so the share is 150 ÷ 450 × 100 = 33.33%.

Question 19 — Partnership

Q19. A and B invest ₹12,000 and ₹18,000 in a business. If the total profit is ₹15,000, what is B's share?

(A) ₹8,000 (B) ₹6,000 (C) ₹9,000 (D) ₹10,000

Answer: (C) ₹9,000. Profits are shared in the ratio of investments: 12,000 : 18,000 = 2 : 3. B's share is 3 ÷ 5 × 15,000 = ₹9,000.

Question 20 — Pipes and Cisterns

Q20. Pipe A can fill a tank in 20 minutes and pipe B can empty it in 30 minutes. If both pipes are opened together, in how many minutes will the empty tank fill?

(A) 50 minutes (B) 60 minutes (C) 70 minutes (D) 45 minutes

Answer: (B) 60 minutes. Pipe A fills 1/20 of the tank per minute and pipe B empties 1/30 per minute, so the net filling rate is 1/20 − 1/30 = 1/60 per minute. The tank fills in 60 minutes.

How to Use These Questions

More solved sets: SBI Clerk Reasoning Questions with Answers: Solved Practice Set.

Attempt questions 1 to 15 in 12 minutes at Prelims pace, then answer questions 16 to 18 from the table without re-reading it. Mark yourself with the Prelims scheme (+1/−0.25) for the first 15 and the Mains scheme (+1/−0.25 per question in the Mains quant section, where each question carries 1 mark) for the rest. The most common errors here are discount-on-cost-price confusion (question 7), upstream speed (question 10) and ratio parts not equalised (question 3). All three disappear with one written line per question.

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SBI Clerk Quant Questions FAQs

How many quant questions are there in SBI Clerk Prelims and Mains?

Prelims has 35 Numerical Ability questions for 35 marks in 20 minutes. Mains has 50 Quantitative Aptitude questions for 50 marks in 45 minutes. Both sections deduct 0.25 marks for each wrong answer, and in Mains each question carries 1 mark.

Which quant topics matter most for SBI Clerk?

Simplification, percentages, ratios, averages, interest, profit and loss, time and work, speed and distance, boats and streams, ages, mixtures, quadratics, number series, probability, partnership, pipes and data interpretation. In Mains, data interpretation sets carry the most weight, so practising table-based sets matters more than isolated arithmetic.

Are these 20 questions from previous-year papers?

No. They are original practice questions written for this page and modelled on the style and level of the SBI Clerk quant sections. For questions taken from official papers, see the previous-year paper hub linked from the syllabus page.

How is data interpretation different in Mains from Prelims?

In Prelims, data interpretation is usually one small set inside the 35 questions. In Mains, it forms a large part of the 50 questions, with tables, bar charts, line charts and caselets. The method is the same — read the whole set once, then answer every question from it — but the sets are longer and the calculations heavier.

How should I time the quant section in the real exam?

In Prelims, aim for about 35 seconds per question and skip anything that takes longer than a minute. In Mains, give each data interpretation set a fixed block of time and answer all its questions together, since re-reading the table costs more time than the calculations.

Sources

• SBI Clerk (Junior Associate) examination scheme: Prelims 100 questions in 60 minutes, Mains 190 questions for 200 marks in 160 minutes, 0.25 negative marking, as described on this site's SBI Clerk syllabus and exam pattern page, which follows the official SBI advertisement.
• All 20 questions, options and solutions on this page are original and were written for this page. Every numerical answer was computed from the numbers in its own question stem.

Last checked: 2 November 2026.